please could someone help me answer this question:-

Question

explain simply why aluminium is cheaper than gold with refernece to the extraction method and abundance.

thankyou ive looked myself but can`t find anything.

Answer 1

Abundance information is easy to find.

see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_the_chemical_elements

and specifically for gold here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold

the above web site also has extraction information for gold

Aluminium extraction is by the Hall–Héroult process see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_extraction